This video describes the authors’ technique for harvesting valved aortic and pulmonary homografts that are needed for various surgical cardiac reconstructions. from human cadaveric hearts.
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Cardiac
June 12, 2024
In this short video, Dr. Andrew Owens talks through and gives a few good tips for a safe redo sternotomy.
June 11, 2024
This video presents a case of minimally invasive mitral valve replacement, left atrial appendage closure, and left atrium plication.
June 7, 2024
Prof. Tristan Yan details the history of aortic surgery. Stay tuned for more videos from Prof. Yan on essential aortic procedures.
June 7, 2024
This week on The Beat, Editor in Chief Joel Dunning interviews Prof. Dawn Jaroszewski. They discuss the latest techniques in pectus excavatum surgery and Prof. Jaroszewski’s recommendations for safe pectus guidelines. She goes on to demonstrate some of her techniques on a chest cavity simulator.
June 7, 2024
ERAS Cardiac Society once more conducted a joint webinar with CTSNet on May 30, 2024, bringing about presentations, discussion, and questions on, "Chest Tube Management in Cardiac Surgery." The session included presentations from Dr. Marc Gillinov, Dr. Jurij Kalisnik, and Dr. Lenard Conradi, with Dr. Kevin Lobdell and Dr.
June 5, 2024
In an analysis of 1,826 patients randomized to surgical aortic valve replacement in the three Placement of Aortic Transcatheter Valves (PARTNER) trials, patient-prosthesis mismatch was assessed using transthoracic echocardiography and by the normal reference value for each size and model of implanted valve.
June 5, 2024
Surgical explantation of transcatheter heart valves (THV) is rapidly increasing, but data on patients with THV-associated infective endocarditis (IE) is lacking. This study assessed the outcomes of patients undergoing THV explant for IE based on data from the international TAVR-EXPLANT Registry.
June 5, 2024
This report comprises the contents of the presentations and following discussions of a workshop of the German Heart Transplant Centers in Martinsried, Germany on cardiac xenotransplantation.
June 5, 2024
This video shows the case of a patient in Ghana who underwent a redo sternotomy and then a Bentall's operation for a dilated aortic root with severe regurgitation.